Sentence examples for a massive dam. from inspiring English sources

Sehuencas, a region in Bolivia and the species' namesake, was gone, replaced by a massive dam.

Turkey, which controls the headwaters of these rivers, is in the midst of a massive dam building programme that is reducing downstream flows.

This was not my river and the construction dated to 1953, but I wanted to see the geographical impact of a massive dam.

Despite threats to her life, her grassroots campaign eventually forced the world's largest dam developer, Sinohydro, to abandon plans to build a massive dam on the Gualcarque River, a river in western Honduras considered sacred by the indigenous Lenca people.

[InsideClimate News] The government of Laos says it has given the go-ahead for construction of a massive dam on the lower Mekong River that is vigorously opposed by neighboring countries and environmentalists.

A6 Chinese Dam Project Delayed Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has unexpectedly suspended plans for a massive dam system on the Nu River in western China that scientists have warned could ruin one of the country's last unspoiled places.

But the Tennessee Valley Authority in the nineteen-thirties was a massive dam-building project in seven states, and there are some points of comparison.

"It's the opposite of parting the waters — making this a transparency between these massive dam walls," Mr. Ohlhausen said.

Behind all that fuss you hear from us about the damn government and how independent-minded we Westerners are, is a long history of massive dam and pipeline projects financed by the American taxpayer, featuring artificially low prices and not a few crony-run boondoggles.

Since Ethiopia announced plans nearly a decade ago to build a massive hydroelectric dam along the Blue Nile tributary, the Egyptian government has waited in dread at the prospects that its freshwater lifeline could slow by as much as 25%.

The lake, roughly 100 m at longest from north to south and roughly 60 m at its widest point, is cited by Cadw to be "fed by a spring at its [north] end, and dammed at its [south] end by a massive earthen dam across the valley floor".